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The pots date it as a '59, I always thought it was a '58... That explains the edge contouring a little bit but the neck should be wider and flatter than it is if it's a true '59... Maybe it's a transition model? Who knows?!?
I'm looking forward to seeing it finished... Part of me is very, very tempted to get it done TV now... I'm hoping that feeling will pass...
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Ah nice. Special thing then, sorry, I thought it was from the 90's.
the neck should be wider and flatter than it is if it's a true '59
I'm absolutely not a Gibson expert, but I think they were all over the place back then. Gil Yaron posted some pictures he'd dug up of Kalamazoo back then, and the necks were shaped by a bloke standing next to a massive low tension sanding belt and waving the mahogany blanks around on it :) The faux accuracy of the boutique builders trying to replicate the real 50's instruments is definitely misplaced :)
I do like a TV jr...
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I don't think I'd clocked quite how old it was - so it's a late 50's?
It sounds like it's had quite a journey. There are some odd sounding injuries.
You'd never put anything other than a jr bridge on it, and wouldn't replug the bridge to refinish so I'd have thought redrilling the bridge would never be necessary (it can't have come from the factory like that? or maybe it came from the factory with an innaccurate scale length?)
I guess someone changed tuners at some point for ones with shorter posts and just thinned the whole headstock to make them fit!?